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Land in Maryland

• Total area of Maryland: 7.940 ×10⁶ acres Confirmed with: 12410 miles²(640 acres/miles²) = 7.940 ×10⁶ acres (source)
• Total land area of Maryland: 6.255 ×10⁶ acres 9774 miles²(640 acres/miles²) = 6.255 ×10⁶ acres (source)
• Total farmland: 2.052 ×10⁶ acres (source)
• Total harvested farmland: 1.247 ×10⁶ acres (source)

Solar Flux at 0º axial tilt (source)

4 kWh/m²/day = 1460 kWh/m²/year = 121.7 kWh/m²/month

With 1 acre= 4047m²
1619 kWh/acre/day = 5.909×10⁶ kWh/acre/year = 4.925 ×10⁵ kWh/acre/month

At 10% PV cell efficiency:
161.9 kWh/acre/day = 5.909 ×10⁵ kWh/acre/year = 4.925 ×10⁴ kWh/acre/month

Monthly Electricity demand for the state of Maryland (source)

Residential = (2.164 ×10⁶ consumers)(average 1086 kWh demand) = 2.350 ×10⁹
Commercial = (2.390 ×10⁵ consumers)(average 10700 kWh demand) = 2.557 ×10⁹
Industrial = (8586 consumers)(average 58044 kWh demand) = 4.98 ×10⁸
Total = 5.405 ×10⁹ kWh

Total value of crops produced in Maryland

$84×10⁶ → Accounts for less than 1% of the state revenue
Needs Sources, needs to be confirmed, I have encountered numbers such as $7.327 ×10⁸ from

How much of the agricultural revenue we want to replace → 10% → $8.4 ×10⁶

Conclusion: Our proposed solar energy scheme would eliminate at most agricultural revenue valued at 1% of the total electrical energy value (this should be stated more nicely)

Housing in Maryland

Rough approximation of surface area of housing in Maryland
3.4 ×10⁸ m² = 8.5 ×10⁴ acres
Needs Sources, needs to be confirmed

Conclusion: The building building surface area is comparable to our solar energy project size.